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Lord Of The Flies Fire Symbolism

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The Buzzing of Flies: Symbolism in William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ When a group of boys gets stranded on an island due to an unspecified war, they slowly devolve from order, leading to two murders and the burning down of the entire island. Ralph is the original leader of the boys, who creates a signal fire and uses a conch shell to keep the peace, but he is usurped by Jack, a hunting-crazed leader who causes two murders and is partially responsible for the creation of The Lord of the Flies where the book gets its name. How the boys interact with the conch shell, the signal fire, and the Lord of the Flies tells of humanity's savagery and animalistic instincts. The conch shell is a tool of democracy, the fire is protection, and the lord of the flies is the …show more content…

It's the only thing keeping his small group together. In the end, Jack steals the fire, taking it for his group. “‘We’d have given them fire for themselves only if they stole it.’”(170). When the fire gets stolen they lose all hope, begging to be let into Jack's group. The fire was the only thing giving them hope. One of the reasons Jack took the fire is greed and darkness in his soul, something that gets pretreated by the Lord of the Flies in the book. Golding uses the lord of the flies to show the cruelty and evil in humans. The Lord of the Flies is a pig head on a stick put there by Jack’s group. Maurice, Robert, and Jack kill a pig and leave its head on a stick as a gift to the beast. 136. The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. Even in its creation, everything about it is human evil, created by the murder of a pig. When Simon talks to him, the pig's head brags about being the reason behind the boys' bad behavior. “‘This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you’ll meet me down there- so don't try to escape!’”(143). When Simon goes to meet the other boys, he is murdered. The Lord of the Flies is within all of

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